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Monkey Loving Bob:

--- Quote from: Diarmaid on January 20, 2009, 16:07:38 ---
The lack of rain this year may have affected some people's holiday but it has nothing at all to do with this thread.



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I think it's safe to say it really effected the majority of people's holidays Diarmaid. This I would imagine has made a number of people look at the cost to benefit, a bit on the high side if you ask me. I spent a lot of money I hadn't intended on spending and would not have spent had I been paddling the morning after. While there has been chat on this before I think people looking at paying a lot of money for very little looks a little less rosy when they didn't get a chance to enjoy one of the main reasons they may have chosen to go on holidays in Kerry in midwinter. Otherwise it's just another 'Spring Break'...

Diarmaid:
Yeah, ok, that's a fair point.

 :)

Evan:
I think regardless of where you went on the West coast this year the rivers would have been the same. The lack of rain didn't only affect Kerry. The only thing that may have been different in other places is the surf.

To all the people comparing the price against the week before/after, it's not really a proper comparison. A true comparison would be with the beginning and end of the summer, when most, but not all of the houses in the area would be booked up. In this case you will find that the price is considerably more expensive than June.

Personally I had fun but I had neither anything to compare it with nor will any change affect me as I won't be here next year so I'm not going to try to push people either to move elsewhere or to stay in the Rossbeigh/Glenbeigh area.

TomB:
Diarmaid,

This was a kayaking holiday for the club. We got no kayaking for the money we spent. therefore we got very bad value for money.

If we got loads of kayaking we would have got a return for our investment, even if the investment was expensive.

Now i know that you get very bad value for money because you came down to drink for the week however the rest of us come down to kayak in one of the countries best paddling destinations. remember this is a canoe club not a drinking club.

For this reason this topic should lead by the kayaking, then follow up with cost, pubs etc . . . .

i have no problem moving to another cheaper destination if it offers the same potential quality of paddling. if the new destination requires alot of driving to get to paddling then we will lose on petrol etc.

The new destination is to allow a good kayaking holiday not a drinking holiday.

I have paddled in West Cork and it does not off the same qualtiy of paddling and would require alot of driving.

Tom

Towelyey:
as much as i hate to say it Tom's right!! we have to put the kayaking first!!

so if a nice kayaker who knows the rivers and surf spots could give us a list of the ones in kerry you want to get to and where they are (the nearest town or village) then we can start looking at places that suit!!

give us a list and we can start from there :)

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